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blackout


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Re: Single use plastic alternatives? [Re: m0n0id]
#27530170 - 11/04/21 01:17 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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m0n0id said: You can find PP tubs/buckets of a variety of sizes at food service stores. Surely you could get PP yoghurt containers as well.
PP is good stuff for being a plastic!
a lot of these for foodservice are weak, as they are single use for takeaways/takeout. The lids have poor seals and they are very thin.
While if you get a PP container of soup in a supermarket it is usually far better, as it has to contain the liquid in a journey on a truck to the shop, and to the home. But I have PP containers of wrapped chocolates which have very poor seals, the lids are usually held on with additional tape, but if its unwrapped stuff it can be good seals. The biggest decent containers I got in supermarkets had caramelized popcorn in them, the lids were also clear to show off the popcorn, great things and cheaper than an empty container of the same volume. You would easily make your way through the popcorn too. While some big glass jars might be of pickles or some other product you might take a while to eat.
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blackout


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Re: Single use plastic alternatives? [Re: Psilimax] 1
#27530174 - 11/04/21 01:19 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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Psilimax said: Quality tempered borosilicate like Pyrex
I was warning about pyrex before, not to presume its all boro. Wiki has a photo on how to tell by eye

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A clear borosilicate glass Pyrex measuring cup produced by Corning (right) and a clear tempered Pyrex soda-lime glass measuring cup produced by Instant Brands (left, differentiated by its different logo and bluish tint)
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TheConfluence
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Re: Single use plastic alternatives? [Re: Psilimax]
#27615822 - 01/12/22 05:41 AM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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I work in a kitchen...
Yesterday I discovered that our "16oz disposable deli cups" which we use to store soup for to go order use a #5 high temp capable plastic that can be pressure sterilized... However the lids are #4 and are super good at melting.
That being said they are quite literally the same cups (32oz) that the fresh from the farm fungi dude uses for his cordyceps.
I'm about to try them out with my next test run of alternative grains to spawn.
-------------------- When two people dream the same dream, it ceases to be an illusion. Philip K. Dick Lies, Inc. (1984)
Edited by TheConfluence (02/06/22 08:27 PM)
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m0n0id



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Re: Single use plastic alternatives? [Re: TheConfluence]
#27615959 - 01/12/22 08:42 AM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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I'm not talkin the takeout kind, though I have found that yogurt containers hold up in the PC just fine. The problem there is that almost always the lids are HDPE which deforms wildly when PC'd.
I'm talkin these guys: https://www.cambro.com/Products/food-storage/round-storage-containers/translucent-rounds/ (They make square ones too.) They're polypropylene, both lid and container. If you were to modify some with a filter patch on the lid you could use them instead of bags.
It's on my list of experiements... but that list is longer than I ever have time to work through.
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Shroomintune
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Re: Single use plastic alternatives? [Re: m0n0id]
#27616470 - 01/12/22 05:30 PM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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Aha, good call on the cambo containers, I use them for a lot of work, never considered PCing them though. On the West Cost USA, US Foods / Chef Store (used to be Cash-N-Carry) https://www.chefstore.com/ sells them. Also restaurant supply stores like Bargreen-Ellingson. https://www.bargreen.com/ Really, lots of equipment at places like that can be repurposed for growing.
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